CASSINIA 



An Annual Devoted to the Ornithology of 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware 



CONTENTS 1911. 



Constantine F. Rafincsque as an Ornithologist {Portrait) 

 The Frontier of the Carolinian Fauna in the Lower Delaware 



Valley 

 The Center Furnace Swamp 

 Recollections of the Passenger Pigeon 

 The Summer of Fire and Bird Adaptation 

 Down the Pocomoke (2 plates) 

 General Notes: Birds Observed near High Point, N. J. 



Alexander Lawson 

 Report of the Spring Migration of 191 1 



Abstract of the Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Orni- 

 thological Club for 191 1 

 Club Notes: The Resignation of Mr. Stone as Editor of 

 Cassinia 



A Foreword and Outlook for the Future 



Notes and News 



In Memoriam : Francis "W. Rawle 



In Memoriam : Ernest M. Evans 

 Bibliography for 191 1 



List of Officers and Members of the D. V. O. C, 191 1 

 Index to Species 



Samuel N. Rhoads 



I 



Spencer Trotter 



»3 



Richard C. Harlow 



19 



Herman Behr 



24 



Cornelius Weygandt 



28 



George Spencer Morris 



35 



John Dryden Kuser 



40 



Robert P. Sharpless 



41 



WiTMER Stone 



42 



J. Fletcher Street 



61 





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